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force and the nato force consists of both a u.s. presence plus nato contributions. >> sreenivasan: some 66,000 u.s. troops are currently stationed in afghanistan. in egypt, a general strike in the city of port said entered a sixth day, with major new protests. thousands of people rallied in the streets waving signs and chanting slogans demanding that president mohammed morsi step down. they also denounced his call for new elections, beginning in april. >> ( translated ): morsi's call for parliamentary elections is null. i want to give a message to morsi who is a representative of the muslim brotherhood group. i want to tell him that port said is the one that will get rid of this regime. we have started this revolution and we started our strike. we do not fear them. >> sreenivasan: one opposition leader mohammed el-baradei said holding elections amid the current upheaval is a recipe for disaster. his group threatened a boycott of any vote unless morsi first agrees to political talks. th stas ofexas and georgia executed two men last n
force and the nato force consists of both a u.s. presence plus nato contributions. >> sreenivasan: some 66,000 u.s. troops are currently stationed in afghanistan. in egypt, a general strike in the city of port said entered a sixth day, with major new protests. thousands of people rallied in the streets waving signs and chanting slogans demanding that president mohammed morsi step down. they also denounced his call for new elections, beginning in april. >> ( translated ): morsi's...
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and so this is why they were looking for some type of international u.s., plus nato, because nato is going to be part of the post 2014 if there is an agreement of the u.s. to sign off and approve and finalize. >> it sounds like there are two conflicting issues here. one is pulling out, getting the u.s. out of this war. and the other is providing that kind of security, that kind of concern for the troops who remain. and then the question becomes how many and from where, am i right about that? >> i think that is the symbol. but the real core issue is confidence after 2014 on the part of the afghan people and a serious commitment from the united states and its nato partners. that commitment is often symbolized by the number of troops that are committed. but of course it goes beyond that. but that commitment is still to the been made clear by the united states and on the afghan side, i think they still fear that lack of commitment. >> how much can the u.s. be expected to be committed. everything is so uncertain? >> well, we've achieved a lot in afghanistan. afghanistan has had the greate
and so this is why they were looking for some type of international u.s., plus nato, because nato is going to be part of the post 2014 if there is an agreement of the u.s. to sign off and approve and finalize. >> it sounds like there are two conflicting issues here. one is pulling out, getting the u.s. out of this war. and the other is providing that kind of security, that kind of concern for the troops who remain. and then the question becomes how many and from where, am i right about...
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nato has found no evidence so far that u.s. special forces tortured civilians in eastern afghanistan. the coalition issued that statement today. afghan president hamid karzai ordered all u.s. special forces to leave a key region within two weeks. local officials in wardak province have blamed americans in the disappearance of at least nine men and the murder of a university student. a trial opened today in new orleans on exactly who will pay how much more in the 2010 gulf oil spill, the nation's worst offshore oil disaster. b.p. says it has already paid $24 billion in spill-related expenses. now a federal judge will decide the liability of the oil giant and its partners, transocean and halliburton, for $20 billion in civil claims. the trial is expected to last months, but the judge has promised not to let it drag on. major new research finds that eating mediterranean-style can cut your risk of major heart problems by 30%. a study in spain, published today, touted the benefits of olive oil, nuts, fish, and vegetables. the study
nato has found no evidence so far that u.s. special forces tortured civilians in eastern afghanistan. the coalition issued that statement today. afghan president hamid karzai ordered all u.s. special forces to leave a key region within two weeks. local officials in wardak province have blamed americans in the disappearance of at least nine men and the murder of a university student. a trial opened today in new orleans on exactly who will pay how much more in the 2010 gulf oil spill, the...
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derail the nomination so for 12 days the nation waited essentially leon panetta was running over to nato and back to his walnut farm. we really didn't have a true secretary of defense other than this lame duck. today finally the republicans decided, hey, we've waited this long. we can't wait any longer. the president does deserve an up-or-down vote on his candidates so they let it proceed. >> woodruff: meantime they sent a message. >> yeah, i mean it is a disconcerting message. we had the republican and the democratic whips talking about vote counts but, you know, foreign nations and people in the pentagon can count votes too. we've never had a defense secretary with this many opposing votes. now this is something he can shake off, but it's going to take some time. >> woodruff: that's right. i mean he has the fewest confirming volts of any defense secretary since the job was created. mark thompson, how does that affect his ability to do his job? >> well, it will depend. it will affect it in a big way if he acts as he did in his con for megs hearing which by all accounts he did not do wel
derail the nomination so for 12 days the nation waited essentially leon panetta was running over to nato and back to his walnut farm. we really didn't have a true secretary of defense other than this lame duck. today finally the republicans decided, hey, we've waited this long. we can't wait any longer. the president does deserve an up-or-down vote on his candidates so they let it proceed. >> woodruff: meantime they sent a message. >> yeah, i mean it is a disconcerting message. we...
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also today, nato announced an afghan soldier shot and killed a british soldier on monday in helmand province. six other britons were wounded. the u.n.'s world food program warned today that one million people in syria are going hungry, as the country's civil war intensifies. the agency blamed a lack of security and lack of access to a key port for aid shipments. meanwhile, rebels battled government troops across syria today. and fighting erupted again in a palestinian refugee camp in damascus, killing five people. the wildfire threat in southern australia was unrelenting today. the flames have fed off hot, dry conditions, with temperatures hitting 113 degrees in some areas. scores of fires burned in tasmania and new south wales, leaving widespread destruction, but so far no confirmed deaths. we have a report narrated by liam dutton of independent television news. . >> reporter: with no letup, scorching heat and high winds, firefighters spent another day trying but often failing to keep the flames at bay. more than 100 homes and tens of thousands of acres of farm land have been destroyed in f
also today, nato announced an afghan soldier shot and killed a british soldier on monday in helmand province. six other britons were wounded. the u.n.'s world food program warned today that one million people in syria are going hungry, as the country's civil war intensifies. the agency blamed a lack of security and lack of access to a key port for aid shipments. meanwhile, rebels battled government troops across syria today. and fighting erupted again in a palestinian refugee camp in damascus,...
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. >> suarez: you've got a nato partner in france fighting against a guerrilla army in mali. it's not an easy task, is it? >> not at all. from a logistical standpoint i thought the itn reporter was spot on when she talked about t lostical iues tt are inherent in any kind of war, but they are particularly in hernt in one where the climate is difficult, where the terrain is almost impossible and where you're really not used to configureing your forces in a way that allows you to move rapidly in this kind of terrain. it's very much adown the american southwest and it is a very, very difficult area not only from the standpoint of things like temperature and mountains and things of that nature, it's the nature of the terrain that makes it very difficult to move from one point to another. >> suarez: we've been covering the fight in mali over the last several days but algeria hasn't been in the news for a long time. what's the state of play there? who's running the place? >> there's a government in algeria, it's one that probably we would describe as formerly a republic but an autho
. >> suarez: you've got a nato partner in france fighting against a guerrilla army in mali. it's not an easy task, is it? >> not at all. from a logistical standpoint i thought the itn reporter was spot on when she talked about t lostical iues tt are inherent in any kind of war, but they are particularly in hernt in one where the climate is difficult, where the terrain is almost impossible and where you're really not used to configureing your forces in a way that allows you to move...
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in afghanistan, nine schoolchildren and two nato troops died in a suicide bombing today. the children were on their way home when the attacker struck close to members of a u.s. military delegation in the eastern province of paktia. the taliban and other militants have increased bombings nationwide in recent weeks, testing afghan forces' ability to secure the country. the new head of the internal revenue service acknowledged today that americans have grave questions about his agency. danny werfel testified at a house hearing, his first since being named acting i.r.s. commissioner. he addressed revelations that conservative groups were singled out, and said a thorough review is under way. >> these failures have undermined the public's trust in the i.r.s.'s ability to administer the tax laws in a fair and impartial manner, and they must be corrected. the agency stands ready to confront the problems that occurred, hold accountable those who acted inappropriately, be open about what happened, and permanently fix these problems so that such missteps do not occur again. >> holma
in afghanistan, nine schoolchildren and two nato troops died in a suicide bombing today. the children were on their way home when the attacker struck close to members of a u.s. military delegation in the eastern province of paktia. the taliban and other militants have increased bombings nationwide in recent weeks, testing afghan forces' ability to secure the country. the new head of the internal revenue service acknowledged today that americans have grave questions about his agency. danny...
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so clearly what had you had was an opportunity because of the intervention, the nato intervention in libya unleashing weapons both from khadaffi's cofers as well as from the international community, weapons flowing from libya across borders of algeria into mali to be able to create a crisis and further destabilize northern mali. so i think what you have is a situation where unilateral intervention could create complications down the road both for civilians that could be targeted in these air strikes as well as for further complicating a political crises that may not be resolved militarily. >> brown: peter pham, as we reported secretary panetta said the u.s. is already providing some intelligence-gathering assistance. what is the u.s.'s stake here or potential involvement just to take it even further than what the french are doing now? who are the other players including the u.s.? >> i think the united states and the rest of the international community does or do have an interest in preventing northern mali from becoming the next afghanistan, the next in-gathering place for all these
so clearly what had you had was an opportunity because of the intervention, the nato intervention in libya unleashing weapons both from khadaffi's cofers as well as from the international community, weapons flowing from libya across borders of algeria into mali to be able to create a crisis and further destabilize northern mali. so i think what you have is a situation where unilateral intervention could create complications down the road both for civilians that could be targeted in these air...
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the region is home to a nato command, the largest concentration of coast guard assets in the world, and 13 federal departments including nasa and the jefferson lab. it's beginning to sink in that sequestration is part of a bigger trend here, an inevitable new normal of less defense spending now that the u. is out of iraq and disengaging in afghanistan. craig quigley is a retired rear admiral who now heads the hampton roads military and federal facilities alliance. >> we can get smaller in our defense establishment and i believe still do what the nation requires their military to do, but sequester is not the mechanism to do it. it takes away all judgment. it does not allow for chopping off from the bottom of the least important prrams to protect the most important programs. >> reporter: while the president exempted uniformed personnel from paycuts, service-members are not spared the effects of sequestration. because it needed to reach the dollar targets of the sequester, the navy cancelled the six-month deployment of the aircraft carrier truman-- all with only two days notice. that sent
the region is home to a nato command, the largest concentration of coast guard assets in the world, and 13 federal departments including nasa and the jefferson lab. it's beginning to sink in that sequestration is part of a bigger trend here, an inevitable new normal of less defense spending now that the u. is out of iraq and disengaging in afghanistan. craig quigley is a retired rear admiral who now heads the hampton roads military and federal facilities alliance. >> we can get smaller in...
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and nato personnel and horrific attacks against pakistani civilians and soldiers. >> reporter: for its part, the pakistani taliban denied the report of rehman's death, calling it false news. and, the pakistani ministry of foreign affairs issued a statement saying, "drone strikes violate the principles of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and international law." there was no direct mention of rehman. today's strike came less than a week after president obama said he's implementing new restrictions on drone attacks, even as he defended their use. >> america does not take strikes to punish individuals; we act against terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the american people, and when there are no other governments capable of effectively addressing the threat. >> reporter: the pakistani government has been highly critical of u.s. strikes inside its borders, pointing to numerous civilians injured and killed in the attacks. incoming prime minister nawaz sharif has strongly condemned the drone attacks, and he's expected to press for an end to them. the pakistani ta
and nato personnel and horrific attacks against pakistani civilians and soldiers. >> reporter: for its part, the pakistani taliban denied the report of rehman's death, calling it false news. and, the pakistani ministry of foreign affairs issued a statement saying, "drone strikes violate the principles of national sovereignty, territorial integrity and international law." there was no direct mention of rehman. today's strike came less than a week after president obama said he's...
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they'll help deploy nato patriot missile batteries. for more on this, i'm joined by npr's deborah amos. she's crossed into syria many times during the two-year long conflict, and is covering the conflict and its casualties closely. well, deborah, we were just reporting on the rebels inching closer to the capitol dam-- damascus. has the momentum changed in favor of the anti-assad force sfs. >> it seems now that we are in a stalemate. the fighting has really not moved. at the moment the regime still control can every major city in the country. and the rebels have not been able to change that balance. i think the focus of the fighting now is around two major airbases. the regime still controls the air. the rebels control most of the rural areas in the country, and two major cities are now in dispute. but the lines really haven't moved over the last couple of months. >> suarez: the anti-u.s. tone of the rebels is interesting. it em sos like it's been intensified even as the united states talks about delivering nonlethal aid to both civilia
they'll help deploy nato patriot missile batteries. for more on this, i'm joined by npr's deborah amos. she's crossed into syria many times during the two-year long conflict, and is covering the conflict and its casualties closely. well, deborah, we were just reporting on the rebels inching closer to the capitol dam-- damascus. has the momentum changed in favor of the anti-assad force sfs. >> it seems now that we are in a stalemate. the fighting has really not moved. at the moment the...
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and anti-nato for that matter. it has attacked u.s. interests and facilities during and before and after the first gulf war. but they hadn't done anything for a long time. so today is the first after, you know, a long break that they had attacked. u.s. embassy here in ankara. >> to you do we know how clear the evidence is that points to them? and i ask this because i've seen some terrorism experts here in the u.s. questioning about whether the turkish government has rushed to judgement in pinpointing this group, particularly because there are any number of groups operating in turky, capable of such violence. >> true there are a number of terrorist organizations from, you know, extremist leftist to kurdish to islamist terrorist organizations operating in turkey. i wouldn't go into speculating further than what the turkish authorities have provided to the turkish media. and we're hoping that the coming days we are going to have more details as to why this happened and why, whoever targeted the u.s. embassy today had done so we don't know
and anti-nato for that matter. it has attacked u.s. interests and facilities during and before and after the first gulf war. but they hadn't done anything for a long time. so today is the first after, you know, a long break that they had attacked. u.s. embassy here in ankara. >> to you do we know how clear the evidence is that points to them? and i ask this because i've seen some terrorism experts here in the u.s. questioning about whether the turkish government has rushed to judgement in...
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. >> at the same time we'll work with our nato allies to seek bold reductions in u.s. and russian tactical weapons in europe, and we can forge a new international framework for peaceful nuclear power. >> warner: he and russian president vladimir putin met privately this week at the g-8 summit in northern ireland, in a tense session that focused largely on syria. aides said mr. obama briefed him on the arms cut proposal, but putin did not mention it today. instead, he again raised objections to a u.s. anti- missile system being deployed in europe. but russia's deputy prime minister said moscow couldn't take the proposal for further cuts in nuclear arms seriously, while the u.s. continues building a system to intercept those weapons. and putin's foreign policy advisor yuri ushakov said any negotiations on arms reductions would have to include other nuclear powers as well. the federation of american scientists estimates france, china and britain have 200 to 300 nuclear weapons, each, while israel, india, and pakistan have roughly 100 apiece. the u.s. and other nations are
. >> at the same time we'll work with our nato allies to seek bold reductions in u.s. and russian tactical weapons in europe, and we can forge a new international framework for peaceful nuclear power. >> warner: he and russian president vladimir putin met privately this week at the g-8 summit in northern ireland, in a tense session that focused largely on syria. aides said mr. obama briefed him on the arms cut proposal, but putin did not mention it today. instead, he again raised...
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kosovos the most recent and big example. 78 days of nato bombing to make sure that atrocityes were not committed any more by serbs, and that succeeded and wound up in a peace treaty. that was a great success. but bill clinton was not able to get congress to agree to this with the exception of financing it. if that was the case where he was able to do good without congress declaring itself involved. >> and kosovo, in many ways, was a reaction to the fact that the world had done nothing in rewanda. this is-- this is exactly flipped. >> the idea to the contrary is chemical weapons is something that civilized nations of the world have felt strongly against ever since mustard gas in the tremps in world war i. >> ifill: including congress in 2003. >> absolutely. expho nobody was doing anything about it. if franklin roosevelt was here he would say that's why i created the united nations, they would pass a resolution and make sure chemical weapons were not used. the u.n. never northbound up to what he expected. >> what this debate about is the meaning of the term american exceptionalism. the p
kosovos the most recent and big example. 78 days of nato bombing to make sure that atrocityes were not committed any more by serbs, and that succeeded and wound up in a peace treaty. that was a great success. but bill clinton was not able to get congress to agree to this with the exception of financing it. if that was the case where he was able to do good without congress declaring itself involved. >> and kosovo, in many ways, was a reaction to the fact that the world had done nothing in...
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commander in afghanistan is going to retire, instead of becoming the overall nato commander in europe. president obama announced today that marine general john allen will end his military career. allen's nomination for the nato post was put on hold last fall, amid questions about e-mail exchanges with a woman in florida. the general was cleared of all wrongdoing, but he said today he needs to focus on his wife's health problems. the president stepped up his attack on republicans today in the face of a looming deficit deadline. the so-called "sequester," $85 billion in automatic spending cuts, is set to take effect less than two weeks from now, on march 1. the president charged republicans' unwillingness to raise taxes is preventing a deal, and, he said, hundreds of thousands of public employees could be out of work, if the sequester takes place. >> this is not an expression: people will lose their jobs. the unemployment rate might tick up again. that's why democrats, business leaders and economists, they've already said that these cuts-- known here in washington as sequestration-- are
commander in afghanistan is going to retire, instead of becoming the overall nato commander in europe. president obama announced today that marine general john allen will end his military career. allen's nomination for the nato post was put on hold last fall, amid questions about e-mail exchanges with a woman in florida. the general was cleared of all wrongdoing, but he said today he needs to focus on his wife's health problems. the president stepped up his attack on republicans today in the...